Anime Like Wandance

Kaboku Kotani enters Ichiran High School hoping for a school life where he goes unnoticed because of his stutter. While his friends start looking to join traditional sports clubs, Kaboku is drawn to the dance club, but a memory from the past about dancing in front of others gives him pause.

That changes when he meets Hikari Wanda, a girl not great with words either but is particularly expressive in the way she dances.

After watching a gripping performance by a male ballet dancer as a kid, Junpei Murao fell in love with dance. However, after being pressured into finding it effeminate, he took up more manly sports like Jeet Kune Do and soccer, particularly after his father’s death made him the man of his house.

One day after a female classmate witnesses him do a kick with the earmarks of ballet to it, she asks him to join her mother’s ballet studio. Although he resists at first, Junpei finds himself willing to make endless sacrifices for the euphoria that ballet elicits.

Tatara is rescued from bullies one day by a professional dancer and teacher named Sengoku. Ending up back at his dance studio, he meets a school mate that he had secretly come to idolize and is lured into the sport of ballroom dancing.

From this moment, Tatara is thrust into the world of dance, aiming to improve as a dancer in order to be acknowledged by his peers and rivals while Sengoku nurtures his natural talent.

Tsukasa Akeuraji dreamed of becoming a professional figure skater, but with professionals starting training in elementary school, he started too late in his teens and his ambitions never got off the ground. Giving up on his dreams, he takes a job as an assistant skating coach.

On his first day, he meets Inori Yuisuka, a fifth grader that was trying to sneak into the rink to practice skating. She, too, is captivated by figure skating like Tsukasa, but after her older sister’s ambitions in figure skating fizzled out, her mother won’t let her younger daughter experience the same heartbreak.

Moved by Inori’s determination to skate despite her mother’s wishes, Tsukasa decides to become her coach.

Living with his grandfather who makes beautiful Hina Dolls, Wakana Gojo has loved them since he was a child. He aspires to one day make Hina Dolls as good as his grandfather, but his dedication has made him a bit of a loner in school after a girl in his childhood said that boys shouldn’t like dolls.

After a run in with the beautiful and popular Marin Kitagawa, he discovers that she wants to cosplay a character from an eroge game.

However, her sewing skills leave something to be desired, and after seeing her passion, Gojo agrees to help her make her costume.

In his second year of high school, Yatora Yaguchi goofs off with his friends and studies hard enough to make good grades. However, neither makes him happy. Bound by normal activities, he wonders if there is something more.

One day, he discovers the joy of drawing after becoming enchanted by a painting made by an art club member. Deciding he wants to do art as a living, Yatora faces a number challenges including his own hesitation on how far art can take him.

Shoutarou Futaba loves sports, but he has languished as a bench warmer on his middle school baseball team. One day after watching a group perform gymnastics in the park, he develops an interest in the sport.

While watching a tournament, he finds himself captivated by Shoushukan High School’s team performance, but watches them place second to last for not fielding a full team. This motivates him to enroll in the school and join their gymnastics team.

After a crushing defeat at the Grand Prix finale, Yuuri Katsuki returns home no longer as Japan’s most promising figure skater. With his window for skating success closing, he assesses his options.

After a video of Yuuri performing a routine by five-time world champion Victor Nikiforov goes viral, he suddenly finds the champion on his doorstep, offering to be Yuuri’s mentor.

Fujito Chiyuki has dreamed of being the star model for her father’s modeling agency since she was a girl. Unfortunately, she stopped growing and is considered too short to be a good model. Regardless, she kept pursuing her dream.

Only did her resolve start to waiver in her last year of high school. However, after meeting Tsumura Ikuto, a classmate with a passion for designing clothes, does she join him on a seemingly impossible journey to achieve their dreams.